Search Engines

[MeGaBiT]

I have menu maker and I use it on a few sites that I do. I noticed that google or yahoo did not follow the links in the navigation. I tested this by putting a link to a site map that contains links to all my other pages, and the next time my sites got crawled, all the pages were listed in these search engines.

Is this just a coincidence, or does yahoo and google ignore the menu code and not know how to follow it?

[RTK]

Megabit,

I know that search engines (at least used to) have a problem following links in java. Then again, who knows? Maybe, the engines simply give higher priority to crawling regular links? Perhaps with time, the pages would have been picked up through the navigation also?

Using a site map as you do, is never a bad idea.